A: Hello Marvel,
Thank you for your interest in PerceptPixel!
Indeed, Cloudinary is awesome, we all have a lot of respect for what the Cloudinary team has been able to achieve.

Now to specifically call out the differences though with the Tier1 plan
wrt background removal while there might be free tools available in the market, the background removal that PerceptPixel has is pretty much state of the art and it ties with the overall image editing flows that one requires on a end to end image editing software and CDN. This has been the #1 ask from a lot of our customers. You do not have to take my word for it, but do give us a chance and compare it with the free tools. We have also written a detailed blog on it, in case it piques your interest - https://perceptpixel.com/docs/blog/tool-for-bbackground-removal
Coming on to the CDN specifically
1. The tier1 plan supports upto 2 custom domains
2. The CDN has Hotlinking protection to protect your bandwidth (across all tiers)
3. We have a referral program that is across all tiers - every person you refer, you and your friend get additional 2GB bandwidth. (on us, life time)
4. We are at a 192 locations worldwide. Which means we have you covered largely when it comes to network speed.
5. Support for wordpress and other plugins
6. Auto captions, tags, local language translation of those tags - across all tiers.
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Not only this all future enhancements, feature additions on PerceptPixel will be made available across all tiers.
I hope this helps :)